7th Cavalry 1956  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Seventh Cavalry
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C. Flippen, Jeanette Nolan, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon, Denver Pyle, Harry Carey Jr., Michael Pate, Donald Curtis, Frank Wilcox, Pat Hogan
Captain Tom Benson (Randolph Scott) is branded a coward at the Army outpost because he missed Custer's battle at Little Big Horn, which resulted in no survivors. He volunteers to lead a detail to retrieve and bury the bodies at the battlefield and accomplishes his mission despite threats by the Indians.
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Across the Pacific 1942  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton, Victor Sen Yung, Frank Wilcox, Monte Blue, Philip Ahn, Frank Faylen, Keye Luke
Set in the pre-World War II era, this film has it all: a double agent (Humphrey Bogart), a Japanese spy (Sydney Greenstreet), and a beautiful woman (Mary Astor). The three meet on a Japanese ship.
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 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Family / Western / Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, James Harrison, Mae Clarke, John Hamilton, Anne O'Neal, William Tannen, Frank Wilcox, Chief Yowlachie
This film features Irving Berlin songs "Anything You Can Do," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." It is the story of sharpshooter Annie Oakley's (Betty Hutton) life in Buffalo Bill's (Louis Calhern) Wild West Show and her romance with the show's star sharpshooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel).
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Beginning of the End 1957  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay, Than Wyenn, Thomas Browne Henry, John Close, Don C. Harvey, Larry J. Blake, Eilene Janssen, Frank Wilcox
Grasshoppers grow to enormous size following exposure to radiation near a government research laboratory. After devouring smaller towns, they descend on Chicago where there is more to eat. Can our hero and heroine cut through the government cover-up and save humanity? Typical low-budget Bert I. Gordon fare.
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Conflict 1945  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake, Grant Mitchell, Patrick O'Moore, Ann Shoemaker, Frank Wilcox, James Flavin
When Richard Mason (Humphrey Bogart) kills his wife, Katherine (Rose Hobart), in order to marry her sister, Evelyn (Alexis Smith), he is tricked into a confession by Dr. Mark Hamilton (Sidney Greenstreet).
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Dance with Me, Henry 1956  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Gigi Perreau, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes, Paul Sorenson, Ted de Corsia, Frank Wilcox, Eddie Marr, Ron Hargrave, Sherry Alberoni, Richard Reeves, Robert Shayne, Walter Reed
Soft-hearted Lou Henry (Lou Costello) owns an amusement park and has adopted two children, Shelley (Gigi Perreau) and Duffer (Rusty Hamer). He also has provided chronic gambler Bud Flick (Bud Abbott) with a safe haven. When Lou tries to help bail Bud out of the gambling debts he owes the mob, Lou finds himself the prime suspect in a gang slaying. Watch for the big chase scene through the amusement park in this, Abbott and Costello's final film together.
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 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Drama
Director: Fred F. Sears
Cast: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba, Grandon Rhodes, Harry Lauter, Thomas Browne Henry, Charles Evans, Frank Wilcox, Larry J. Blake, Nicky Blair, Paul Frees, Clark Howat, Arthur Tovey
When UFOs attempt to make peaceful communications with Earth, their mission is mistaken for an invasion. They land on an Army base and are the target of gunfire. Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) is on hand when the pilots announce that they plan to take over Earth within 60 days, and he is given the job of heading up Operation Skyhook, which will probe the atmosphere for future space flights. Dr. Marvin and his team develop a missile that, when fired, shatters the flying saucers. But big problems result from the attack, and the saucers crash into Washington, D.C., landmarks. Special effects by the master: Ray Harryhausen 1 User Review
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| | 07/20/2009 | | Fantastic film, Ray Harryhausen is genius! |
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The First Traveling Saleslady 1956 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, Clint Eastwood, James Arness, Robert F. Simon, Frank Wilcox, Dan White, Harry Cheshire
In this weak comedy, Rose Gillray (Ginger Rogers) finds love when she sets off to deal with rough cattlemen. Keep on the lookout for a very young Clint Eastwood.
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Hollywood or Bust 1956 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Pat Crowley, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Willard Waterman, Anita Ekberg, Ben Welden, Frank Wilcox, Michael Ross, Kathryn Card
This is Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' last film together. The story involves Steve and Malcolm (Martin and Lewis) fulfilling their dream of meeting Anita Ekberg and the misadventures they encounter in the process.
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Knockout 1941 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Cornel Wilde, John Ridgely, Cliff Edwards, William Edmunds, Frank Wilcox, Ben Welden
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) is a young boxer who runs into trouble both in and out of the ring.
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Lady Gangster 1942  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Florey
Cast: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Ruth Ford, Virginia Brissac, Roland Drew, Jackie Gleason, Dorothy Adams, William Hopper, William "Bill" Phillips, Vera Lewis, Dorothy Vaughan
Aspiring actress Dot Burton (Faye Emerson) takes a turn in the wrong direction when she hooks up with a gang of bank robbers. Ending up in prison, she participates in a breakout and eventually goes straight after saving Kenneth's (Frank Wilcox) life. There is good reason for director Florey to have used a pseudonym in this weak effort.
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A Majority of One 1961 N/R, 156 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel, Alan Mowbray, Frank Wilcox, Gary Vinson, Sharon Hugueny, Dale Ishimoto
Different backgrounds of Jewish Mrs. Jacoby (Rosalind Russell) and Japanese Koichi Asano (Alec Guinness) come together and the result is a humorous romance.
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The Million Dollar Duck 1971  G, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
aka: $1,000,000 Duck
Director: Vincent McEveety
Cast: Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts, James Gregory, Lee Montgomery, Jack Kruschen, Virginia Vincent, Jack Bender, Frank Wilcox, Arthur Hunnicutt, Bryan O'Byrne
Research scientist Albert Dooley (Dean Jones) takes home a duck from the lab and gives it to his son, Jimmy (Lee Montgomery). The duck had wandered into the lab and was accidentally irradiated. Now, wonder of wonders, the duck lays golden eggs, which solves the Dooley family's financial problems. But other troubles come to the fore when the neighbors start snooping around. 1 User Review
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| | Tania 02/17/2007 | | Okay I'm an oldie...... well, old enough to have seen this as a kid when it first came to television here in Australia. I loved it then and have just recently seen it again with my children. We all loved it. |
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Miracle of the Bells 1948 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Philip Ahn, Charles Meredith, Harold Vermilyea, Jim Nolan, Frank Ferguson, Frank Wilcox
A miracle occurs when the body of actress Olga Treskouna (Valli) is brought back to her hometown for burial.
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 Out of the Past 1947  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
aka: Build My Gallows High
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie, Richard Webb, Virginia Huston, Dickie Moore, Frank Wilcox, Mary Field, Paul Valentine, Ken Niles, Oliver Blake, James Bush, John Kellogg
Californian Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum) is a man with a dubious past who becomes involved with a hood, Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). While helping find Sterling's girlfriend Kathie (Jane Greer) in Acapulco, Markham finds himself accused of a murder that Kathie committed. A good film that was remade in 1984 as "Against All Odds."
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Pal Joey 1957 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, Bobby Sherwood, Hank Henry, Barbara Nichols, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Wilcox, Pierre Watkin, James Seay, Franklyn Farnum, Bess Flowers, Robert Reed
San Francisco nightclub entertainer Joey Evans (Frank Sinatra) cannot seem to decide whether he is a good or bad guy. Romance comes into play when lecherous, wealthy widow Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth) finances Joey in his own nightclub, the Chez Joey. But, it is good-girl chorine Linda English (Kim Novak) who Joey falls in love with. When Vera offers a bribe to get Joey to marry her, will Joey go along with it, or will he choose to change his ways and find love with Linda? Songs include "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," and "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
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Philo Vance Returns 1947 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Infamous Crimes
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: William Wright, Vivian Austin, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, Ramsay Ames, Damian O'Flynn, Frank Wilcox, Iris Adrian, Ann Staunton, Tim Murdock
After a seven year absence Philo Vance returns for a short series of three low-budget entries with William Wright in the role of the sophisticated master detective in this one–but not the final two. When popular playboy Larry Blendon (Damian O'Flynn) is murdered, his many ex-wives and girlfriends come under suspicion as well as becoming potential victims due to inheriting their share of his estate. Perhaps Philo Vance can come to the rescue.
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Philo Vance's Secret Mission 1947 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Reginald LeBorg
Cast: Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Tala Birell, Frank Jenks, James Bell, Frank Fenton, Paul Maxey, Kenneth Farrell, Toni Todd, David Leonard, Frank Wilcox
The renowned master sleuth Philo Vance (Alan Curtis) is hired to provide input for a mystery magazine by publisher Martin Jamison (Paul Maxey) while also helping Martin solve the murder of his partner several years previously. When Martin is murdered Vance must figure out who killed the partner, which will surely lead to Martin's killer. This is the final Philo Vance film–at least for more than a half century and counting.
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Ruby Gentry 1952 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully, Phyllis Avery, James Anderson, Josephine Hutchinson, Herbert Heyes, Charles Cane, Sam Flint, Myra Marsh, Frank Wilcox, Edgar Dearing, Barney Phillips
This is a story about the class system encountered by Ruby (Jennifer Jones) who thought "marrying up" with Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston) would give her the social status she desired. When Boake marries Tracy (Phyllis Avery) instead of Ruby, she marries the very wealthy Jim Gentry (Karl Malden). Later, Jim is killed in an accident, Ruby inherits his fortune, and calls in his loans. Boake is now turned on by Ruby, but their romance is ill-fated, and tragedy lies ahead.
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Til We Meet Again 1940 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie Barnes, Frank McHugh, Eric Blore, George Reeves, Henry O'Neill, Frank Wilcox, Regis Toomey
This remake of Oscar-winning "One Way Passage" is about a woman (Merle Oberon) suffering from a fatal illness who falls in love with a condemned convict she meets aboard ship on their trip to San Francisco.
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon 1952 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Cast: William Powell, Julie Adams, Rosemary DeCamp, Tommy Ivo, Henry Hull, Charles Drake, Chubby Johnson, John Doucette, Marvin Press, Frank Wilcox, Griff Barnett, Jack Perrin
Eccentric Doc Brown (William Powell) rescues orphan David (Tommy Ivo) from a medicine show where he has been exploited. They become good friends, but surprises lie ahead when David finds a treasure chest and hides it.
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The Voice of the Turtle 1947 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: One for the Book
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith, John Emery, Erskine Sanford, John Holland, Frank Wilcox, Jack Lee
Sergeant Bill Page (Ronald Reagan) is on leave in New York City. When he has trouble finding lodging, he shares Sally Middleton's (Eleanor Parker) apartment for an innocent weekend, but love develops.
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 The Wagons Roll at Night 1941 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Sig Ruman, Cliff Clark, Frank Wilcox, John Ridgely, Clara Blandick, Garry Owen, Charley Foy, Aldrich Bowker, Jack Mower, Frank Mayo, Al Herman
Grocery clerk Matt Varney (Eddie Albert) captures an escaped lion and returns it to Nick Coster's (Humphrey Bogart) carnival. Nick is impressed with Matt and offers him a job as lion tamer. Matt accepts the job and replaces Hoffman the Great (Sig Ruman), but trouble lies ahead when he falls for Mary Coster (Joan Leslie), who is Nick's sister. Nick disapproves of their relationship and sends Matt into the den of a ferocious lion. Matt survives but now must fight a gun-toting Hoffman the Great who is seeking revenge. Will Matt have met his match, or will his courage ensure winning the heart of Mary? Remake of "Kid Galahad" with a change in scenery.
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| 1. 7th Cavalry (1956)
aka: Seventh Cavalry
2. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
3. Across the Pacific (1942)
4. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
5. Beginning of the End (1957)
6. Conflict (1945)
7. Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
8. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
9. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
10. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
11. Knockout (1941)
12. Lady Gangster (1942)
13. A Majority of One (1961)
14. The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
aka: $1,000,000 Duck
15. Miracle of the Bells (1948)
16. Out of the Past (1947)
aka: Build My Gallows High
17. Pal Joey (1957)
18. Philo Vance Returns (1947)
aka: Infamous Crimes
19. Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)
20. Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952)
21. Ruby Gentry (1952)
22. Til We Meet Again (1940)
23. The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)
24. The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
aka: One for the Book
25. The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
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